Communication Subject Guide
Style Guide
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Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association
BF 76.7 .C66 2010 (Ref Desk Coll, Sci Ref, Educ Ref)
Now in its fifth edition, this manual provides detailed guidelines for citing sources in written manuscripts. Originally developed by the American Psychological Association, this style manual is used by many other disciplines besides psychology. For the most commonly cited materials see our APA Style guide.
For a comprehensive guide, see APA Formatting and Style Guide provided by Purdue University.
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association 5th Edition: A Brief Guide
A brief overview of the most commonly used types of the APA (American Psychology Association) bibliographic style: http://www.wmich.edu/library/help/guides/_pdf/apa.pdf. For a more comprehensive guide use Purdue University: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/section/2/10/. The Library has a paper copies: (BF 76.7.P83 2009), copies are available at all WMU Libraries' reference desks.
Indexes the individual articles and the indexes in thousands of subject encyclopedias and other reference books. Provides citations to specific volumes and page numbers. Links to the WMU Library Catalog for sources we own, but doesn't contain full text itself.